RAID Setup

RAID Controller: 3ware 9650SE
RAID Level: RAID10 256K
Disks: 4 x Western Digital RE3 500 GB
Write Cache Setting: Enabled
Read Cache Setting: Intelligent
Drive Queuing Mode: Enabled
StorSave Profile: Balanced

RAID Performance

dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/null bs=1M count=16000
16777216000 bytes (17 GB) copied, 71.311 s, 235 MB/s    
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda bs=1M count=16000
16777216000 bytes (17 GB) copied, 72.8608 s, 230 MB/s

parted /dev/sda mklabel msdos
parted /dev/sda mkpart p 2048s 128g
mkfs.ext3 -b 4096 -E stride=64 -E stripe-width=128 /dev/sda1
mount -o noatime /dev/sda1 /mnt
bonnie++ -d /mnt -u root -n 0
Version  1.96       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
Concurrency   1     -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
finnix          12G   560  99 166177 30 79475 13  1899  95 225856  18 597.3  12
finnix          12G   550  99 164446 31 78881 13  1880  95 227057  19 799.9  16
finnix          12G   546 100 163233 31 79898 13  1925  97 226681  17 813.4  17